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IIE Transactions articles from December 2005
This journal publishes original research in the industrial engineering industry, focusing on design and manufacturing, operations and engineering, quality and reliability engineering and scheduling and logistics.
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IIE Transactions archives from December 2005
Capacity-driven acceptance of customer orders for a multi-stage batch manufacturing system: models and algorithms.
December 1, 2005... 1. Introduction
Two strong trends that are currently affecting both manufacturing companies and software vendors are Finite-Capacity Scheduling (FCS) systems and Available-To-Promise (ATP) systems. FCS systems produce and maintain...
Algorithms with performance guarantees for flow shops with regular objective functions.
December 1, 2005... 1. Introduction
One of the earliest ideas in flow shop scheduling was the development of heuristics with tight worst-case bounds for NP-hard problems by utilizing the optimal permutation (when available) for the corresponding...
Parallel-machine rescheduling with machine disruptions.
December 1, 2005... 1. Introduction
The existing literature on scheduling problems mainly considers environments with stable conditions. However, in practice production systems are often subjected to changes due to material shortages, urgent order arrivals,...
Free shipping and purchasing decisions in B2B transactions: a game-theoretic analysis.(Business to business transactions)
December 1, 2005... 1. Introduction
Although free shipping started out as a temporary marketing ploy to attract online shoppers to Internet sites during the 1999 holiday season, it has now become an integral part of doing business for many...
A stochastic multi-item inventory model with unequal replenishment intervals and limited warehouse capacity.
December 1, 2005... 1. Introduction
Distribution systems often contain a set of regional warehouses, each of which stores a variety of items supplied by multiple manufacturers in order to serve a regional population of customers. Effectively managing the...
On the effect of demand randomness on a price/quantity setting firm.
December 1, 2005... 1. Introduction
The importance and difficulty of simultanously managing supply and demand is well established in the literature. Several enterprises (e.g., Volvo, HP and Campbell's Soups) have paid a high price for not correctly addressing...